Female Painter Illustration

• Pocket mirrors come packaged complete with a velvet bag for safe keeping.
• Dimensions: 2.25 Diameter.
• Design on one side with real glass mirror on the other side.

John Louis Rhead was a noted English born author, artist and illustrator (as well as an angler), who emigrated to the United States in 1883. We love illustrations, and lithographs from this era. This piece was originally an Advertising poster for The Quartier Latin, a magazine devoted to the arts. We love the bold vivid colors and intensity and focus of the painter. We like these classical ideas and compositions found in many of the illustrations and posters of the time.

An unusual sidenote about Mr. Rhead. His cause of death is quite unusual. From the New York Times obituary of Lous Rhead:

LOUIS RHEAD, ARTIST AND ANGLER, DEAD. Exhausted Recently by Long Struggle In Capturing a 30-pound Turtle. ...About two weeks ago Mr. Rhead set out to catch a turtle weighing thirty pounds which had been devastating trout ponds on his place, Seven Oaks. After the turtle was hooked, it put up a fight for more than half an hour. Although Mr. Rhead was successful in the end, he became exhausted. A short time later he suffered from his first attack of heart disease. Yesterday's was his second.